City and Liberty
of Westminster
,
in the County of
Middlesex
.}
to wit.
An Inquisition Indented, taken for our Sovereign Lord the
King at the Parish of Saint Martin in the fields
within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter, Westminster
,
in the County of Middlesex
, the Twenty fourth day July in the twenty sixth
Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord GEORGE the Third, by the Grace of God, of
Great-Britain, France and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, and so forth, before
Thomas
Prickard< no role >
, Gentleman, Coroner
of our said Lord King for the City and Liberty, on
View of the Body of
Michael Robinson< no role >
then and there lying dead, upon
the Oath of
William Cole< no role >
,
James Horskins< no role >
,
Joseph Stenton< no role >
,
George Hall< no role >
,
Thomas Hannom< no role >
,
Thomas Elder< no role >
,
Thomas Yardington< no role >
,
Emanuel Woolf< no role >
,
William Payne< no role > This name instance is in set 2582.
,
James Ingels< no role >
,
Samuel Peach< no role >
,
William Brockwell< no role >
,
James Bussel< no role >
,
Rowland Ellis< no role >
,
John Harding< no role >
,
David
Dore< no role >
, and
James Ashman< no role >
good and lawful Man of the said Liberty, duly
chosen, who being then and there duly sworn and charged to enquire for our said Lord the
King, when, how, and by what Means the said,
Michael Robinson< no role >
came to
h is Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said
Michael Robinson< no role >
on
the Twenty third day of July in the Year aforesaid, was
found Drowned and Suffocated in the River Thames
,
to Wit, at Hungerford Stairs
, in the Parish aforesaid,
within the Liberty and County aforesaid,
[..] the said
Michael Robinson< no role >
had no Marks of Violence appearing
on his Body but how or by what Means he became
drowned and Suffocated, no Evidence thereof doth
appear to the Jurors
In Witness whereof as well
the said Coroner as the said William Cole< no role >
Foreman of the
said Jurors, on the behalf of himself and the rest of his
Fellows in their Presence, have to this Inquisition set
their Hands and Seals, the Day Year and Place above-
mentioned
Tho. Prickard< no role >
[mark]
Coroner
Wm Cole< no role >
[mark]
Foreman